It’s really fun that Ben made pancakes when he got the peasoup. In Sweden thursdays are by tradition ”peasoup and pancake-day”. Our pancakes are served with whipped cream and jam tough.
Reminds me of a story about foreign guests that were treated to a typycal Thursday lunch. Peasoup and pancace, but they did what Ben did and mixed the pancaces with the pea soup, instead of eating the pancaces separately as intended.
Same here in the Netherlands. A thick peasoup (So thick your spoon stays up in the bowl) and pancakes after. However if it's as a treat we take the pancake add a chocolade spread and a ripe banana on it. roll the pancake up. place said pancake in foil and reheat it (preferably between charcoal) get it out and then serve said pancake with a dollop of whipped cream. the peasoup and pancake like that is something we really like to eat out door in the winter. preferably when you get off the ice.
Not only are they poisonous, they are so spectacularly toxic that you have to boil them three times and always throw away the water to render them safe. Tasty, though.
At least in Sweden they have been reclassified from edible/delicious after preparation to poisonois, do not eat, because there is alway poison residue even after the preparation.
Canned pea soup is the first dish a kid learns to cook. You smack the thick soup blob in to a pan and measure ½ a tin of water in. Then you stir it until it boils. I made it many times when I got home from school :D Kalakukko in a tin is a novel take on traditional food Kalakukko, a rye bread with some bacon lard and vendace baked in it. It worked a lot like English meat pies. People working in the forest cutting lumber or working on the field would have a nice hearty meal out of it and it didn't go bad due the bread being so thick.
Aww that's a sweet memory. My first meal was cheese on toast, soon followed by tomato soup with bread and butter, then scrambled eggs on toast. My grandma had a fairly big kitchen compared to ours and I stayed with her every weekend and she used to let me cook whatever I wanted. I made up all sorts of concoctions while learning to cook. She was a good cook and a good baker herself but she only kept baking just long enough to teach me, after I got good enough not to need her help much she never baked a single thing again the entire rest of her life lol. I loved cooking for her.
Ebbers: in Finland we traditionally eat pea soup with pancakes as dessert on thursdays, if you came up with this totally on your own, amazing job! As a finn I would have added the reindeer and mushrooms to the pea soup and then made a thick oven pancake with jam
I totally agree about the advent calendar videos. This year, I have a "double calendar": the videos and a spice calendar which was gifted to me, and was reviewed a few years ago by Sorted (from Just Spice, with a spice mixture and a recipe on an app per day).
As soon as Mike said they were going to the home of Father Christmas, I got excited for Finland, and did a little dance when I heard I was right! (me being half-Finnish). I think Jani was being quite nice sending those great ingredients. Great episode
Was laughing at Ben being surprised that the pea soup was really thick. Yup, that's why we use the euphemism "It's a real pea souper out there today" when the fog/mist/cloud is really thick. So saying I liked the sound of Ben's dish. Dill crepes, reindeer & lovely rich Finnish pea soup would be lovely.
It is always good to see James! He provides a calming quality, much needed to balance the often manic energy of the "normals" (Ben is great but can't do it alone)) and he is confident without being smug or arrogant, like his "replacement." Kush may be extremely knowledgeable in matters culinary, but in the videos that i have seen, he makes it clear that he feels superior
@@SortedFood pea soup is pea soup, I would never eat it as anything else, but it was a great use here, the salty crepe idea is fun! And aniseed and juniper would definitely go well with reindeer even if theyre not the most typical flavours. (Usually salt, pepper, lingonberry.) :) The particular tinned reindeer is something ive sauteed on a pan with some onion and carrot myself to get a bit of texture back in and then just eaten with mash, it really isn't the best and most gamey type out there - would be a quiche type pie filling most often in my experience. The fish dish is really inventive though and the combination of the mushrooms with perch really lucked out! It doesn't feel like it came out of a tin. I could see that in a Finnish restaurant for sure. But little fishes with little bones really are the thing here 😂 so funny to see them mushed.
The pancake thing ebbers did is really common in Brazil! Pancakes here are savory 99% of the time , and they are that just what ebbers did : really thin, rolled tight with usually meaty filling , and sometimes covered in sauce!
Yay for this from Finland! The pea soup is a concentrate so you put a lot of water in to thin it out. It's an affordable meal you can store in room temp and you can pimp it with whatever you like. Mustard and ham is the traditional combo! I've never seen reindeer with tomato. It can be pretty expensive so you wouldn't want to mask the flavour. But fatty tinned meat in a tomato sauce does sound pretty good!
@@Mattheq why bother tinning the water when it's readily available everywhere. Finnish tap water is among the cleanest in world. Heck, you can drink some fresh water in Finland, and a lot more after boiling it first. Or melting snow. :p
I would love for you guys to go deep into christmas traditions in different countries. I know Costa Rica (my hometown) loves tamales and specific desserts this time of the year!
Careful what you wish for, they have done some of traditional christmas dishes and the sorry excuse for "Finnish traditional christmas meal" had every commenting Finn rolling on floor laughing at it. :p One of those "technically correct" but so made so weird no one had seen such a way to do it...
@@swissfoodie3542 Not in the slightest Finnish but very fun ideas there. I'm not a fan of the tinned pea soup for example but what Ebbers did with it probably improved it a fair whack.
@swissfoodie3542 The dishes were very interesting. I certainly wouldn't have done anything like their dishes myself, main reason being that I see a few of the ingredients as full-on dishes by themselves (or at least some form of them) and I'm not chef-ish in the slightest.
@@swissfoodie3542 I'd never put milk nor cheese in the pea soup. It sounds very, very wrong. My first idea would have been a creamy mushroom sauce with reindeer and some potatoes. I have no clue on what to do with pea soup or kalakukko except just serve them as pea soup and kalakukko :D.
Guys just wanted to drop a comment letting you know your channel is a lot of good fun. I've just discovered you in the last couple of months and have been so pleasantly surprised by the content. 😂 Thanks chaps!
if it's like the Dutch version pea soup naturally is very very condensed. If done properly your spoon needs to be able to stand up in your bowl and not move. that thick. But it is so good the more when it is cold outside. ad a few slices of rye bread with butter and tick bacon. so good I am getting hungry for it.
You guys should do a 5-minute mystery Mayhem tin can roulette challenge, where the chefs and/or normals are given a random tin can instead of a mystery ingredient every five minutes.
I love tin can roullette, it really pushes everyone, normal or chef. and I love Sorted Advent Season! Thank you for another entertaining holiday time :)
You can pretty much walk into any random finnish home and you'll find one of those pea soup cans. The others are intentional curve balls. xD I'm quite impressed how Ben handled the soup, though.
Sorted are spoiling us...not only daily videos in Advent... but also the weekend event (I have my ticket!!!!) ...James is definitely the winner tonight...Ben produced the dish I would prefer to eat, but had a much easier set of tins to use;;;I was able to plan a meal around those tins myself - (I was thinking of a thick veggies soup with the peas and mushrooms as a base...and reindeer meatballs!) ... but James had 3 downright scary tins and made an amazing salad!!!!
An improved version of Can Roulette, do the same 3 rounds of choosing, but each round they have to each pick a closh that hides a tin under it. So they can't try to guess what's in it from its shape before choosing. Like they can with most fish and SPAM cans. A fully blind Can Roulette.
3:40 "Doing something confidently and blagging your way through it as if you do have a plan" he says as he chops without looking. Love watching the chefs show off their cheffy skills. 😄
Why hello James! And everybody else, of course. ROFL when James was going "It's not a mousse, what is it?" I was tempted to go "No it's not moose it's reindeer," but of course it's Ben with the reindeer. Which I really must try one of these days. LOL that isn't pea soup, Ben, that's Pease Porridge! Which, to be fair, is what I end up with when I make it myself and I love it.
I have worked for 30 + years around the USA as a classical trained chef (went to school in Paris at a named college) and what you guys are doing is my favorite way to cook. I worked for a restaurant in Sacramento California that the owners demanded things were fresh and different each day. I never knew what they had picked up at the fish, meat and vegetable markets everyday until I got there in the morning. It was always a surprise and sometimes a shock. The first week was pure hell after that I settled in and got my head together. AND I LOVED IT! Of course we had our standard menu every day but there was always the Chef Special which was what they would bring into me. When I moved from California to Florida I went to work at DISNEYS GRAND FLORIDAN and I loved it because 5 days a week all I did was the Chefs Choice Table in the kitchen. I love challenges and today challenge was killer. Sadly I have to live vicariously through folks like you due to an accident 7 years ago when I lost use of my right arm (which would seem strange since I am left handed, but people do not realize you don't just use your round thing above your shoulders but also need both hands) Thanks for this video it was a blast especially the reindeer. I have had the pleasure of using it in Canada
Pea soup with milk and cheese almost made me gag, thanks for that! But without the pea soup I'd actually want to taste Ben's dish. James'.. not so much, I've had some bad experiences with kalakukko 😅
On the third day of Sortedmas, my true love gave to me: 3 Random Tins, 3 other Random Tins, 2 Normals and 1 Epic Battle. P.S. Mike is turning the tables for all the other tin challenges lol P.P.S. Shoutout to Jani for the tins.
I think it's actually a law or something in Finland to have names and ingredients both in Finnish and Swedish at products. Because both languages are official. Most of us use only Finnish, but along the coast line there are more Swedish speaking Finns.
It is actually surprisingly authentic to serve pea soup with pancakes. In the Swedish military, pancakes and pea soup are served every thursday. If you are a recruit then it is the best time of the week.
Same in Finland. And not just in the military. The 'more traditionally' lunch restaurants have the pea soup option on every thursday as well, with the pancakes (or, lettu's) and jam. Some schools do as well once a month or every two months. It's like a national dish or something..
So exited for the live show! I found you guys recently and you have really inspired me to get into cooking and baking again, its actually really helped me become passionate about cooking and baking again. Your video a day is my advent countdown to christmas i have loved every episode! The best cooking show I have ever watched. Fantastic work guys and thank you for reigniting my passion.
Gonna be honest did not know that fins also had yellow pea soup but should have expected this as they were part of sweden previously so they must have inherited the military tradition to eat it once a week.
I have long wanted to see the Sorted team in an Iron Chef type of battle because I feel like their collective experience thinking on their feet and under pressure lends itself to that format. Seeing Barry hovering over Ben's stove while he works gave some serious Alton vibes. Not that Barry is in any way like Alton, but playing the role of host (or in this case, co-host) as he walks around chatting with the chefs made me think of it. How about Sorted vs Mythical Kitchen in a Kitchen Stadium battle?
You could take a whole bunch of ingredients from around the studio. Put a number on each ingredient. Then let a random number generator pick which 5 ingredients need to be used. This would also create a fun random challenge.
Beautiful James, all the guys, a very challenging set of ingredients, awesome dishes and no interaction with the live audience (if they were there). This was perfect, thank you!
I like the minor variation on the theme. Tinned foods, but all from a specific region. Little variations like that is exactly how you keep a repeating format fresh. Bravo. edit: I personally wanted to try Ebbers dish myself. Just saying.
It’s really fun that Ben made pancakes when he got the peasoup. In Sweden thursdays are by tradition ”peasoup and pancake-day”. Our pancakes are served with whipped cream and jam tough.
Reminds me of a story about foreign guests that were treated to a typycal Thursday lunch. Peasoup and pancace, but they did what Ben did and mixed the pancaces with the pea soup, instead of eating the pancaces separately as intended.
Same here in the Netherlands. A thick peasoup (So thick your spoon stays up in the bowl)
and pancakes after.
However if it's as a treat we take the pancake add a chocolade spread and a ripe banana on it. roll the pancake up. place said pancake in foil and reheat it (preferably between charcoal) get it out and then serve said pancake with a dollop of whipped cream.
the peasoup and pancake like that is something we really like to eat out door in the winter. preferably when you get off the ice.
Yeah same thing here in Finland. Quite a funny coincidence that he landed on pancakes, though they're a very different type of pancake indeed.
Regional/themed tin can roulette sounds like an interesting idea.
The look on Ebbers's face when Mike said they were poisonous until cooked was priceless 🤣 Great to see James again 😁
Too good huh 😂
*Ebbers'
So are potatoes, technically, though you'd probably have to eat a lot of spuds to get sick; iirc they're a member of the nightshade family.
Not only are they poisonous, they are so spectacularly toxic that you have to boil them three times and always throw away the water to render them safe.
Tasty, though.
At least in Sweden they have been reclassified from edible/delicious after preparation to poisonois, do not eat, because there is alway poison residue even after the preparation.
"Yeah but you always forget the important bit, the celery!"
I genuinely thought he was going to say "the thinking!"😂
... or the bay leaf.
same 😂😂
Nobody told him it was Christmas, cause every day James is back feels like a present.
I love James. He is just...normal, yet professional. I adore his attitude and red-headed heat, but you can see he has a good heart.
Canned pea soup is the first dish a kid learns to cook. You smack the thick soup blob in to a pan and measure ½ a tin of water in. Then you stir it until it boils. I made it many times when I got home from school :D
Kalakukko in a tin is a novel take on traditional food Kalakukko, a rye bread with some bacon lard and vendace baked in it. It worked a lot like English meat pies. People working in the forest cutting lumber or working on the field would have a nice hearty meal out of it and it didn't go bad due the bread being so thick.
Aww that's a sweet memory. My first meal was cheese on toast, soon followed by tomato soup with bread and butter, then scrambled eggs on toast. My grandma had a fairly big kitchen compared to ours and I stayed with her every weekend and she used to let me cook whatever I wanted. I made up all sorts of concoctions while learning to cook. She was a good cook and a good baker herself but she only kept baking just long enough to teach me, after I got good enough not to need her help much she never baked a single thing again the entire rest of her life lol. I loved cooking for her.
I was hoping we would get a video a day this year again! Literally the best advent calendar around
I love James. He is just so...normal but professional. I love his attitude and red headed heat but you can tell he has a great heart.
He has brown hair I don’t get why people call him redheaded? Lol
Those are some interesting cans. This might be an interesting variation, choosing six cans from different countries to spice up the challenges.
Love this idea 👌
@@SortedFood I would like to add the caveat that the cans are from countries from different climates and maybe are considered comfort food for them
Ohhhh spinning the letter wheel to get a new country per can
@@SortedFood I send those cans and know you still got couple spare cans from Finland 😄
Great idea
I'm a simple man, I see James I press the like-button ^^
James is a legend. He brings such a vibe, professional, and creative yet also delightfully flustered and relatable, never lose him!
Ebbers: in Finland we traditionally eat pea soup with pancakes as dessert on thursdays, if you came up with this totally on your own, amazing job!
As a finn I would have added the reindeer and mushrooms to the pea soup and then made a thick oven pancake with jam
As a Scandinavian that sees these things in the supermarket "everyday" i freaking love this! Great choice of tins!! Morels is freaking delicious!
Ebbers seems a bit disappointed. We LOVE you! Great job on the thought process, it's nice seing you trying very different things!
Welcome back james! Always happy to have our bundle of ginger sarcasm back
Sorted December advent videos are always the best.
Also great to have our old chef back.
I totally agree about the advent calendar videos. This year, I have a "double calendar": the videos and a spice calendar which was gifted to me, and was reviewed a few years ago by Sorted (from Just Spice, with a spice mixture and a recipe on an app per day).
James brings balance to the boys!
4:33 Ebbers pounding Rudolph. Quote of the day. REALLY had me laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I came here to post just that!
"Had me on the floor"
Oh, your name's Rudolph, is it? 🤣
🥰🤙 Happy Holidays!
Quote if the week. Nearly lost it when he said it
As soon as Mike said they were going to the home of Father Christmas, I got excited for Finland, and did a little dance when I heard I was right! (me being half-Finnish). I think Jani was being quite nice sending those great ingredients. Great episode
It’s like you guys found all these tins in the studio move and saw their use by dates 😂 still love the format so not complaining
Usually - yes 😂
This time, we were kindly gifted them!
Everyone focuses on the ingredients in the tins but misses out on James' special dose of Sass he brings to every ep
Love the sass.
I was going to say that the sass in the new studio just increased tenfold. Always happy to see James!
I always love when James makes an appearance.
Was laughing at Ben being surprised that the pea soup was really thick. Yup, that's why we use the euphemism "It's a real pea souper out there today" when the fog/mist/cloud is really thick. So saying I liked the sound of Ben's dish. Dill crepes, reindeer & lovely rich Finnish pea soup would be lovely.
The look on the winner’s face! So happy! I just love seeing these chefs at work, they are so good at what they do. Thanks guys.
I watched a number of old videos with James and I really loved this chef in the studio. Glad to see him again!
I really dislike Christmas, but thise days with a episode a day really brings my spirit up. Ty guys!
It's nice seeing James and Ben back together ❤
Ben's life flashing before his eyes at 2:13.
The way you could give me all these tins and a detailed recipe and it wouldn’t come out anywhere near as good as these! Well done!
It’s James!!! It’s always so exciting to see him these days. 😊❤
It is always good to see James! He provides a calming quality, much needed to balance the often manic energy of the "normals" (Ben is great but can't do it alone)) and he is confident without being smug or arrogant, like his "replacement." Kush may be extremely knowledgeable in matters culinary, but in the videos that i have seen, he makes it clear that he feels superior
FINALLY a sorted challenge i can use for tips 😂 cheers from finland
Let us know what you think?
@@SortedFood pea soup is pea soup, I would never eat it as anything else, but it was a great use here, the salty crepe idea is fun! And aniseed and juniper would definitely go well with reindeer even if theyre not the most typical flavours. (Usually salt, pepper, lingonberry.) :) The particular tinned reindeer is something ive sauteed on a pan with some onion and carrot myself to get a bit of texture back in and then just eaten with mash, it really isn't the best and most gamey type out there - would be a quiche type pie filling most often in my experience.
The fish dish is really inventive though and the combination of the mushrooms with perch really lucked out! It doesn't feel like it came out of a tin. I could see that in a Finnish restaurant for sure. But little fishes with little bones really are the thing here 😂 so funny to see them mushed.
Jamie choosing a salad over a creamy, cheesy, oozy, meaty dish is what I like to call GROWTH! Love to see it!
Surprised that he actually chose a salad. More Balanced flavors perhaps and better plating
I love y'all but it's always a pleasure to have our favorite sarcastic ginger back in the studio
you guys spoil us :^> so excited for a video each day hehe
💛
The pancake thing ebbers did is really common in Brazil! Pancakes here are savory 99% of the time , and they are that just what ebbers did : really thin, rolled tight with usually meaty filling , and sometimes covered in sauce!
Ebbers is pounding rudolph - quote of the day !!!!
😆
But do you recall... the most delicious reigndeer of alllllll
I see James.... I watch. (ok I watch anyways, the point is I like it when James shows up)
We all like it when James shows up 😀
Yay for this from Finland! The pea soup is a concentrate so you put a lot of water in to thin it out. It's an affordable meal you can store in room temp and you can pimp it with whatever you like. Mustard and ham is the traditional combo!
I've never seen reindeer with tomato. It can be pretty expensive so you wouldn't want to mask the flavour. But fatty tinned meat in a tomato sauce does sound pretty good!
I was sure it must be a concentrate, given they were basically scooping it out of the tin like ice cream
@@Mattheq why bother tinning the water when it's readily available everywhere. Finnish tap water is among the cleanest in world. Heck, you can drink some fresh water in Finland, and a lot more after boiling it first. Or melting snow. :p
Oh y'all got James to do the tin can roulette!
Ewww "yall"🤢
James got an absolute Banger with the Fish in Bread. Its super delicious tinned and even better when freshly made
Wow! Incredible dishes from unique tinned food. I am impressed! Well done to both chefs!
From Ben mastering Swedish to Mike trying Fermented Shark to now Ben and James cooking with Finnish ingredients, we’ve not all grown up haha
I would love for you guys to go deep into christmas traditions in different countries. I know Costa Rica (my hometown) loves tamales and specific desserts this time of the year!
Careful what you wish for, they have done some of traditional christmas dishes and the sorry excuse for "Finnish traditional christmas meal" had every commenting Finn rolling on floor laughing at it. :p One of those "technically correct" but so made so weird no one had seen such a way to do it...
The pancake wraps things, gratinated with cheese were absolutely a thing in Sweden in the 70s/80s.
can still buy ready made frozen versions today in many stores. been quite a few years since i hade it last, maybe i should make some :)
Svampcrepes är helt klart underskattat
SUOMI MAINITTU, TORILLA TAVATAAN, PERKELE!
What do you think of the dishes that James and Ben made ? Are they somehow "finnish" ?
@@swissfoodie3542 Not in the slightest Finnish but very fun ideas there. I'm not a fan of the tinned pea soup for example but what Ebbers did with it probably improved it a fair whack.
@swissfoodie3542 The dishes were very interesting. I certainly wouldn't have done anything like their dishes myself, main reason being that I see a few of the ingredients as full-on dishes by themselves (or at least some form of them) and I'm not chef-ish in the slightest.
@@swissfoodie3542 I'd never put milk nor cheese in the pea soup. It sounds very, very wrong. My first idea would have been a creamy mushroom sauce with reindeer and some potatoes. I have no clue on what to do with pea soup or kalakukko except just serve them as pea soup and kalakukko :D.
Love the format! Really loving all the community input! James needs to be on a pass it on again! Happy holidays guys,! Adven videos are awesome
"Merry Christmas folks, today we're cooking Rudolph..."
Guys just wanted to drop a comment letting you know your channel is a lot of good fun. I've just discovered you in the last couple of months and have been so pleasantly surprised by the content. 😂 Thanks chaps!
12:05 Honestly, the best judge. He only provides SPAFFACTS 🔥
The pea soup is condensed, thats why its so thick. Instructions say to add water, so Ben had the right idea.
I always have a few of those exact tins in my cupboard. And yeah, the instructions say to add half a tin of water and heat it up while strirring.
@@MrDonRonny Yeah. Now im actually curious how it tastes if you add milk instead of water. Gotta buy few cans to try.
@@Joroha Same here, I'll be testing Ebbersified Pea Soup soon!
if it's like the Dutch version pea soup naturally is very very condensed. If done properly your spoon needs to be able to stand up in your bowl and not move. that thick. But it is so good the more when it is cold outside. ad a few slices of rye bread with butter and tick bacon. so good I am getting hungry for it.
Jaimie choosing the fish dish while there is a meat dish next to it is mind boggling and shows how good that must be.
Deconstructed tinned kalakukko sure is a choice but a lot of fun nonetheless
You guys should do a 5-minute mystery Mayhem tin can roulette challenge, where the chefs and/or normals are given a random tin can instead of a mystery ingredient every five minutes.
But also, make it a pass it on, so each person has ten minutes to cook, so 2 tins each, and all of them have to make it to the final dish.
A classic episode of Sorted was that! Always great to have an appearance from James!
Yall should do a Tin Roulette Pass It On... Each round the guys must pick a random tin that must be included in the final dish.
0:51 did he just say “laurel”?
I love tin can roullette, it really pushes everyone, normal or chef. and I love Sorted Advent Season! Thank you for another entertaining holiday time :)
All tins were great choices! Tasty stuff! And I'm from Sweden.
What tins would you have liked and what would you have made?
Reindeer and morelles, great combination. But peasoup?! Bwahaha
You can pretty much walk into any random finnish home and you'll find one of those pea soup cans. The others are intentional curve balls. xD I'm quite impressed how Ben handled the soup, though.
The best advent calendar one could wish for! ❤
The fact that Jamie didn't pick the meaty, cheese-covered pancakes just shows hot amazing that salad must have tasted.
To quote Doctor Who: „Do what I do: Hold on tight and pretend it‘s a plan!“
Lovely to see James again!
Sorted are spoiling us...not only daily videos in Advent... but also the weekend event (I have my ticket!!!!) ...James is definitely the winner tonight...Ben produced the dish I would prefer to eat, but had a much easier set of tins to use;;;I was able to plan a meal around those tins myself - (I was thinking of a thick veggies soup with the peas and mushrooms as a base...and reindeer meatballs!) ... but James had 3 downright scary tins and made an amazing salad!!!!
My Finnish wife was so excited for you to do this video
An improved version of Can Roulette, do the same 3 rounds of choosing, but each round they have to each pick a closh that hides a tin under it. So they can't try to guess what's in it from its shape before choosing. Like they can with most fish and SPAM cans.
A fully blind Can Roulette.
Those pancakes looked epic.
Would love to see you guys try with freeze dried camping food. That'd be fun
I dont know whois Jani, but i truly madly deeply do thank him for this. 🎉
Happy holidays guys! You make this season better
3:40 "Doing something confidently and blagging your way through it as if you do have a plan" he says as he chops without looking.
Love watching the chefs show off their cheffy skills. 😄
Why hello James! And everybody else, of course. ROFL when James was going "It's not a mousse, what is it?" I was tempted to go "No it's not moose it's reindeer," but of course it's Ben with the reindeer. Which I really must try one of these days. LOL that isn't pea soup, Ben, that's Pease Porridge! Which, to be fair, is what I end up with when I make it myself and I love it.
2:12 losing it at Ben's "excuse me?" face :'D
I have worked for 30 + years around the USA as a classical trained chef (went to school in Paris at a named college) and what you guys are doing is my favorite way to cook. I worked for a restaurant in Sacramento California that the owners demanded things were fresh and different each day. I never knew what they had picked up at the fish, meat and vegetable markets everyday until I got there in the morning. It was always a surprise and sometimes a shock. The first week was pure hell after that I settled in and got my head together. AND I LOVED IT! Of course we had our standard menu every day but there was always the Chef Special which was what they would bring into me. When I moved from California to Florida I went to work at DISNEYS GRAND FLORIDAN and I loved it because 5 days a week all I did was the Chefs Choice Table in the kitchen. I love challenges and today challenge was killer. Sadly I have to live vicariously through folks like you due to an accident 7 years ago when I lost use of my right arm (which would seem strange since I am left handed, but people do not realize you don't just use your round thing above your shoulders but also need both hands) Thanks for this video it was a blast especially the reindeer. I have had the pleasure of using it in Canada
Nice to see tins from Finland where I live. Peasoup - just add water, a little mustard is good to add!
Pea soup with milk and cheese almost made me gag, thanks for that! But without the pea soup I'd actually want to taste Ben's dish. James'.. not so much, I've had some bad experiences with kalakukko 😅
On the third day of Sortedmas, my true love gave to me: 3 Random Tins, 3 other Random Tins, 2 Normals and 1 Epic Battle.
P.S. Mike is turning the tables for all the other tin challenges lol
P.P.S. Shoutout to Jani for the tins.
As a Brit living in Sweden, if i send you some Swedish Tins would you also consider doing something similar with the Normals?
Honestly, these were pretty much Swedish tins :D
Even had the Swedish names on the tins for that double marketing
I think it's actually a law or something in Finland to have names and ingredients both in Finnish and Swedish at products. Because both languages are official. Most of us use only Finnish, but along the coast line there are more Swedish speaking Finns.
They have done with things people have sent in before, you could probably email their business email and figure out the details.
@@funakfunak2740 that's because around 8% of Finland has Swedish as their mother tongue. My wife for example is one of those Swedish Speaking finns.
I can absolutely help you with Icelandic tins!! I would love to see what someone turns tinned Fiskbollur into 😅
Great to see James again.
When I make that pea soup, I put in a bit of garlic, mustard and a stock cube. Outstanding stuff.
"Their poisonous until cooked" the look O.O
This is easily one of my favorite formats and James is always a Christmas treat lol. Merry Christmas guys! Sending tinned love from the states! 👊🏻
Loving the Sorted Advent Calendar!
It is actually surprisingly authentic to serve pea soup with pancakes. In the Swedish military, pancakes and pea soup are served every thursday. If you are a recruit then it is the best time of the week.
Same in Finland. And not just in the military. The 'more traditionally' lunch restaurants have the pea soup option on every thursday as well, with the pancakes (or, lettu's) and jam. Some schools do as well once a month or every two months. It's like a national dish or something..
So exited for the live show! I found you guys recently and you have really inspired me to get into cooking and baking again, its actually really helped me become passionate about cooking and baking again. Your video a day is my advent countdown to christmas i have loved every episode! The best cooking show I have ever watched. Fantastic work guys and thank you for reigniting my passion.
Gonna be honest did not know that fins also had yellow pea soup but should have expected this as they were part of sweden previously so they must have inherited the military tradition to eat it once a week.
Pea soup has been a part of both finnish and swedish 'cuisine' since the middle ages. One of the few veggies that grows up here 😅
This is the ideal format to slip in a can of Surströmming.
I have long wanted to see the Sorted team in an Iron Chef type of battle because I feel like their collective experience thinking on their feet and under pressure lends itself to that format. Seeing Barry hovering over Ben's stove while he works gave some serious Alton vibes. Not that Barry is in any way like Alton, but playing the role of host (or in this case, co-host) as he walks around chatting with the chefs made me think of it. How about Sorted vs Mythical Kitchen in a Kitchen Stadium battle?
A video a day in December is the Christmas present I never knew I needed! It makes me so happy to have one to watch every day 😁
You could take a whole bunch of ingredients from around the studio. Put a number on each ingredient. Then let a random number generator pick which 5 ingredients need to be used. This would also create a fun random challenge.
Beautiful James, all the guys, a very challenging set of ingredients, awesome dishes and no interaction with the live audience (if they were there). This was perfect, thank you!
Ooh...the dilled pancakes have inspired me.
these are some of my favorite episodes, thanks for doing more of them!
i think the biggest shock in this video was jamie picking the smoked fish salad (i agree i just wasn’t expecting it)
I like the minor variation on the theme. Tinned foods, but all from a specific region. Little variations like that is exactly how you keep a repeating format fresh. Bravo.
edit: I personally wanted to try Ebbers dish myself. Just saying.
Welcome back James!!! Also we need an update on Ebbers. Did his confidence of those shrooms betray him?